Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-07
BILL NYE,s RAILROAD PASS.
Some of the Unpleasant Results of the
Interstate Commerce Law

Some of the Unpleasant Results of the
Interstate Commerce Law.
Bill Nye writes under the date of April
4th 10 an unidentified exchange, as fol
lows:
l arrived here last week Just little
ahead of the biting blasts of the |. C. B.
By the L. G. B. l mean to imply the
interstate commerce bill.
noticed while en- route that the new
law had stimulated travel to wonderful
degree. On my way from the south where
| was during the winter, / noticed that the
sluggish arteries of trade mad already be-
gun to palpitate and crowds of people filled
the cars of every train. | said to myself
Congress has at last solved this great cues
ton of financial stringency and broken the
great dam that held capital captive. On
the Piedmont Air Line, people crushed
each other together in mad attempt to
travel. On the Richmond & Danville and
L. L. V. d g., as well as the l.. d. N. hu-
mainly crowded day coaches and sleepers
till the wall cracked. At Cincinnati |
could not get sleeping car at all, and l
. had had to telegraph "a hours ahead to get
one from Chicago. Everywhere as far as
the eye could reach, there seemed to be a
wild and restless desire to get somewhere
else. Several companies have TO put on
l arrived here Just in time to witness the
last moments of a northwestern pass as its
spirit took its fight. Had postponed nv
journey for a single day would have been
too late. 1t was still young. Life was be-
fore it. Barely quarter of the span of
its life had been passed when it curled up
and expired. 1t was cute little thing.
| with an olive complexion and large
mournful, upper-case eyes.
A few days ago | noticed that it did not
look well. 1t did not complain Of illness or
pain, but thought could detect a condi-
ton on its back, and so | hurried home in
order to be here in case it should expire.
As soon as the conductor looked at il and
felt its pulse, he said he could do nothing
for it. The interstate commerce law is one
of those things that will have to be tried
| before we can pass upon it, l presume,
though some claim that it is going to be
very difficult to pass upon it even then.
This thought occurred to me Just after the
gate-keeper pushed me back YESTERDAY and
told me to go and get my ticket.
| then first realized what it was to be
| rudely ground under the heel of cold
| corporation, that is devoid of heart, devoid
of soul, devoid of noble thoughts, devoid
| of refined instincts, devoid of kind i'm
pulses, devoid of milk of human kindness,
| force of habit | walked up TO the gate with
a joyous nod and the old password, only to
be coldly repulsed by the hired bouncer OF
this heartless, soulless, impulseless, milk
| less and bowelless corporation
| But the railroads will get the worst of it,
for / know that travel on some of the lines
has fallen off since April 1. | can see il
already. l have fallen off myself since
the first of the month and others will dc
the same.
This is not all. A friend of mine who
| runs paper, and whose pass got the hol-
low horn on Friday last, says that his col
umns are now open to those who wish to
complain of the management of this road
He states that the first hot box will be duly
chronicled and that he will no longer close
| his eyes to the wrongs we have heretofore
suffered at the hands OF this unjust and
| ruthless vampire that has been sapping the
very foundation of our institutions. and
| smearing its long, dark trail with the REM
nants of our best mich cows, reluctantly
paying for them the price set at the tail OF
| an unjust and enervating trial by corrupt,
venal AID dwelling jury.
| He says that the time has come for the
press to arise and assert itself" and when
| the train runs off the track and kills lot
of people who have led exemplary lives,
| his paper will hereafter tell why and how
it was done. Heretofore he has not had
sufficient help in the office, he claims, and
| he has frequently ran short of tvpe, but
now he is going to give all the particulars
| of the first smash-up that occurs on the
road if the paper falls into the relentless
| NAV of a Sheritfs sale ON the following
| week.
| | asked a railroad official of st. Paul YES
| terday what effect the new law would have
| on the freight rates to the Northwest. and
he said he thought they would not be much
higher than they were before This an
| nouncement will fall like healing balm on
the sore place where the shippers annual
pass was ruthlessly torn from his bleeding
heart last week.
The result upon the pulse and expression
of the press, through the cancellation of its
free passes, may be seen by the following
quotations clipped from the same exchange:
BEFORE AND AFTER THE INTERSTATE LAW.
OLD STYLE NEW STYLE.
We are panied TO learn Mr.. John Jones' SUI
that the genial Colonel periutendent of the B.
Jones, superintendent and II. Railroad, is con-
the Bungtown and Hoo fined to his house by i'll
pe,ville Railroad is con- mess
fined to his house by a
painful attack of sciatic
toothache. His many
friends VIII hope that
his illness will be of
short duration.
A slight mishap oc- Last night owing 70
CURED last night on thethe negligence of the
Bugie city Dranch OF the employees of the Rough
Rough and Ready Rail and Ready Railroad, a
road, near smiths Cor train on the Bugle city
ners, winch caused half branch ran into an open
an hours delay. The switch near Smith,s
great vigilance and care Corners The whole
exercised upon this pub train was deraiIed and
lic-spirited and we'll one car rolled down .